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+Converter from ODT to html with preservation of pagination.
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+Headers and footers also convert to html.
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+Based on writer2latext http://writer2latex.sourceforge.net .
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+Command line options:
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+-pagination (true/false)
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+-align_splits_to_pages (true/false)
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+-heading_tags (sections/none)
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+-css_inline (true/false)
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+Heading tags useful for importing documents to Greenstone 3 digital library to split document into sections.